Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition

The bugs are fixed now. The game runs like a charm, and the many UI improvements really make the whole experience smoother than ever. If you want a hassle-free way of (re)experiencing this masterpiece without having to tinker with mods, the enhanced edition delivers on all its promises. Well worth the asking price.

It's 2020 and game still have bug that prevent party from traveling. Sigh.

I have played both the original Baldur's Gate and this new Enhanced Edition and I can easily say that this is the way I prefer to play it. I am a new generation gamer that's used to a lot of hand holding and this version, although still pretty old-school, makes this game accessible for people like me.

I have to admit that I never played the original, so my gaming experience with this game begun with the enhanced edition, and what I've got is a very deep and engaging old school RPG that stood the test of time with it's very entertaining and solid gameplay, great story, amazing variety, complex interactions with NPCs and quests approach. I also like the fact that this game follows the classic 2nd edition D&D ruleset (the ones I followed playing D&D when I was young and which I think are perfect for immersive roleplaying) and the Enhanced Edition doesn't mess with that. In fact the EE doesn't mess with anything: it simply adds bugfixes, selectable gameplay tweaks (you can choose if to apply them or not), various enhancements to the GUI, HD resolution and new content; and as for the current version (2.3) it's all rock solid, except for some minor bugs in the new journal (anyway it succeed in making the quests more manageable). I found the new quests and NPC quite good and on par with the original content, and the support from Beam Dog is excellent (they are still supporting this game with bug fixes and improvements after 4 years). I honestly don't know why you would mod the original when this version exists: you'll end up with lots of bugs and instabilities due to using multiple mods and you'll get a similar experience, only worse. So I can recommend this version of the game as the "go to" version.

I just purchased this game but it is unplayable because it won't progress pass the character creation stage. Plus the menu is too small to comprehand. There did not seem to be any options to change the screen size for the menu. It's too bad because it's a classic. Maybe it's a different experience on a PC.